Who will teach nurses?
COOS BAY Experienced nurses have seen it before. In a recession, retired and semi-retired RNs come out of the woodwork to support their families. But once this economic slump ends, nurses including Susan Walker foresee a shortage of medical worker...
 4.6K - Nov. 5, 2009; scored 497.0 Reports: Federal stimulus sends $1.8B to Oregon
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon has received about $1.8 billion in the first eight months of the federal stimulus program credited with saving or creating nearly 10,000 jobs in the state. Reports released Friday showed the largest number of jobs saved by...
3.1K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 678.0 Co-worker donates kidney
SALEM For most co-workers, office generosity usually means an extra handful of desk candy, a lunch out or a helping hand with a trying task. North Salem resident Julee Myers recently beat all that by a long shot. Myers, 47, donated a kidney about ...
2.9K - Oct. 28, 2009; scored 497.0 Oregon offers model to boost nursing faculty
PORTLAND A predicted national shortage of nurses in the next decade could be made worse by a shortage of the experienced nurses who train them at community colleges and universities around the country. In response, nursing education leaders from 11...
4.1K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 801.0 OHSU has $51.5M in stimulus funding
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon Health Science University has attracted $51.5 million in federal stimulus funding so far this year. Officials say funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has created 116 full-time and part-time jobs at OH...
0.7K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 461.0 OHSU has $51.5M in stimulus funding
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon Health Science University has attracted $51.5 million in federal stimulus funding so far this year. Officials say funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has created 116 full-time and part-time jobs at OH...
0.7K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 461.0 No formal charges in pedestrian fatality
A driver whose pickup struck a French man in a North Bend crosswalk last month will not face criminal charges. After reviewing the police investigation, District Attorney R. Paul Frasier announced Thursday that he will not prosecute Jared Bechtel of ...
1.8K - Oct. 16, 2009; scored 403.0 Crosswalk death may bring charges
The Coos County District Attorney said he is awaiting reports from law enforcement before he will decide whether to criminally charge a Coos Bay man in a Sept. 17 pedestrian vs. vehicle crash that killed a French man. Michel Bernard, 71, and Marie-Th...
1.5K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 403.0 Teachers fail to get jobs following graduation
PORTLAND Most of the estimated 2,400 newly minted teachers who graduated from Oregon colleges of education this year were unable to get hired anywhere in Oregon, proving that a job often billed as recession-proof is not. Education deans and others ...
6.2K - Oct. 6, 2009; scored 783.0 Pedestrian death case to go to DA
The Coos County District Attorney will consider whether to charge a Coos Bay man who struck a French couple Sept. 17 in a North Bend crosswalk. Seventy-one-year-old Michel Bernard subsequently died in a Portland hospital. Bernard succumbed to complic...
1.7K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 497.0 OSU sets record amount in funding
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon State University research efforts attracted more than $252 million in outside funding in 2008-09. OSU President Ed Ray said the record amount is $21 million more than the previous year. He described the succes...
0.9K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 660.0 Motorcyclist in Portland hospital
A 51-year-old motorcyclist was seriously injured Tuesday when he was thrown from his bike in a two-vehicle crash on state Highway 42 South. At about 3:49 p.m., while a 2008 Hyosung GT2 motorcycle headed east on the highway, its driver, Ricky R. Rasmu...
0.8K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 456.0 Anti-tax measures struggle for signatures
SALEM While business groups look like they will be successful in sending to the voters a measure that could overturn the Oregon Legislature s $733 million tax hike on corporations and high-income earners, two other anti-tax referendum camp...
4.9K - Sep. 21, 2009; scored 883.0 Crosswalk accident leaves man critical
A French man remained in critical condition in a Portland hospital today, after he was struck in a North Bend crosswalk Thursday afternoon. Seventy-one-year-old Michel Bernard and Marie-Therese Pradel, 68, were crossing Sherman Avenue, when a sport u...
1.4K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 456.0 Kitzhaber's return shakes up 2010 race field
SALEM (AP) Former governor John Kitzhaber s pursuit of a record third term puts pressure on fellow Democrats who might want the job, and it could complicate the job of Republican leaders lining up prospective candidates. A former emergency room phy...
4.4K - Sep. 3, 2009; scored 842.0 Family survives ocean ordeal
A week after a wave swept him into the sea, Logan Graham is back home in Coos Bay. The 10-year-old wound up at Doernbecher Children s Hospital in Portland after a trip to the shore went terribly wrong. Logan had gone to the Smelt Beach south of Charl...
2.9K - Aug. 19, 2009; scored 514.0 Family survives ocean ordeal
A week after a wave swept him into the sea, Logan Graham is back home in Coos Bay. The 10-year-old wound up at Doernbecher Children s Hospital in Portland after a trip to the shore went terribly wrong. Logan had gone to the Smelt Beach south of Charl...
2.8K - Aug. 18, 2009; scored 514.0 Snyder, Cardwell
Tommy Cardwell and Sophia Snyder, both of Portland, were married Aug. 15, 2009, in Eugene. Sophia is the daughter of Joe and Jane Snyder of Myrtle Point and a 2000 graduate of Myrtle Point High School. Tommy is the son of Steve and Trudy Cardwell of ...
0.8K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 719.0 Locals finish degrees at Oregon State
Oregon State University graduated one of its largest classes ever during the school s 140th commencement ceremony this summer in Corvallis. Local students who graduated were: Bandon Jessyca T. Banks, bachelor of science, business administration; Car...
3.9K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 953.0 Study to look at diets' effect
PORTLAND (AP) Oregon Health Science University researchers are beginning a study to determine whether a low-fat diet can benefit multiple sclerosis patients. In addition to tracking symptoms and examinations by a neurologist, researchers will use...
0.7K - Aug. 3, 2009; scored 403.0 | 
